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Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

In his new book, Henry Mintzberg offers a sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how management, as a result, is practiced, and makes thoughtful-and controversial-recommendations for reforming both. Management, Mintzberg writes, is a practice that blends a great deal of craft (experience) with a certain amount of art (insight) and some...

The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders (2nd Edition)

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

This updated edition of a modern classic on followership provides the keys to creating an environment in which leaders are vigorously supported in pursuing the organization’s mission and courageously confronted when their actions threaten the organization’s well-being.

For every leader there are dozens of followers who work...

Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

Leadership has traditionally resided in one person with many followers. This book presents a new model of mutual leadership, which transforms leadership from one individual's responsibility into a new way of working for everyone.

Creating Leaderful Organizations demonstrates the bottom-line benefits of this model, shows how it is already...

You Don't Have to Do It Alone : How to Involve Others to Get Things Done

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

Learn to involve others and make your work easier! This concise book lays out a simple, straightforward plan of action for finding the right people and keeping them energized, enthusiastic, and committed until the work is completed.

You Don't Have to Do It Alone takes a systematic approach to getting things done by involving...

The Moral Advantage : How to Succeed in Business by Doing the Right Thing

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

All too many people view business as a ruthless, dog-eat-dog world where only the pitiless survive. But here Bill Damon tells the compelling stories of real-life business leaders who have achieved great success by adhering to moral conviction. Based on interviews with 48 executives in a variety of industries, The Moral Advantage...

The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Secrets of Continuously Developing a More Profitable Business Model

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

With The Ultimate Competitive Advantage, the authors have drawn on their proprietary experiences with and knowledge of top-performing small to large companies and nonprofits to raise CEO and company standards again. They show how all organizations can continually reinvent themselves to build increasing competitive advantages while...

Prisoners of Our Thoughts : Viktor Frankl's Principles at Work

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

In this introspective, straightforward text, a former colleague of Viktor Frankl offers ideas and strategies for finding personal meaning and living an authentic work life.

World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning is one of the most important books of modern times. Frankl’s personal...

Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

Positive Organizational Scholarship is a path-breaking scholarly volume exploring the dynamics in organizations that lead to extraordinary individual and organizational performance.

Just as positive psychology focuses on exploring optimal individual psychological states rather than pathological ones, Positive Organizational...

The Serving Leader: 5 Powerful Actions That Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community (Ken Blanchard)

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

At a time of increasing concern about ethics at the top, The Serving Leader makes the case for an approach to leadership that is both more moral and more effective than the ruthless, anything-for-the-bottom-line approach that has brought disgrace—and often ruin—to many once-mighty organizations.

The Serving...

Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

The world is drifting without a clear plan for its economic development, Communism is dead, but many see capitalism as amoral and too easily abused. In the wake of the debacles of Enron and other corporate scandals, continued jobless growth, and a languid economy, we need a roadmap to a better future. Written by Stephen Young, the global...

Working PeopleSmart: 6 Strategies for Success

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

Working PeopleSmart is like your own personal coach guiding you through all of your work relationships—even the most difficult. It will help you develop interpersonal savvy that enhances personal and organizational performance. It details six core strategies that will enable you to:

Open others up rather than...

Branded Customer Service : The New Competitive Edge

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

By applying the concepts in this book, organizations can use customer service as a powerful tool for establishing and maintaining a distinct brand identity.

Branding is an integral part of modern business strategy. But while there are dozens of books on branding products and marketing campaigns, nobody has applied the...

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